Accents and The Escapist!

[dark-mortality]

Welp, I live in Norway, and despite the fact I speak English A LOT, I still have no accent. It's strange, several English people I know have said that Norwegian sounds almost like we are singing, but then we speak English, and our accents are the most flat thing that has ever been created... Talk about Juxtaposition :3

 

[Someguy 24]

A good ole southern accent. I don't really hear it, but I'm sure it's there.

southern? south of what?

 

[hawkeye52]

Lived in the British military for all my life so I haven't got a discernible accent other then its "southern" but you wouldn't be able to say where from the south because its so plain

 

[Scarim Coral]

I have no accent what so ever althought this guy I know thought I had an American accent.

Everyone has an accent.

No really I don't really have an accent at all. I'm guessing this is the result of my parent wanting me to speak Chinese but growing up in a English schools had kind of mess up my listenning so I haven't pick up an accent.

Everyone has an accent.

"What is an accent?
An accent is a way of pronouncing a language. It is therefore impossible to speak without an accent."


Perhaps you cannot hear that you got one?

I have heard my own voice via a voice recorder and my voice is monotone. My voice doesn't really have a hint of an accent as in where the accent is from (like Scottish, Yorkshire etc).

I suppose the only way I can prove this if we had met in person.

 

[Palademon]

I have a realistic version of the english accent you hear in movies.

 

[Auninteligentname]

I have an Norwegian accent, I would guess. What? You suddenly thought of Petter Solberg and/or Jens Stoltenberg? No, no, I don't have the accent of the eastern part of Norway, I have the accent of the west part of Norway.

Those from the eastern part sounds funny.

 

[Xenowolf]

Just a boring old generic semi-RP Southern English accent.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I've lived most of my life near (an hour's drive) away from Oslo, the Norwegian capitol, so I have a relatively plain and city-based accent, with a few local variations from living in a small place where everyone knows everyone. However, I've recently moved waaaay north in the country, which has a very well known accent that's considered kind of low-brow (a bit like the 'merican south), so I'm expecting some linguistic osmosis to affect me. And apparently my accent is noticeable when I speak english, even though my vocabulary and syntax is perfect, and I'm honestly quite proficient at speaking english for a Norwegian. Still, most people don't recognize where it's from (some jackass thought it was french), but then again, Norway ain't too famous, I suppose..

Boy, that's kind of a rant, ain't it.

 

[BlackStar42]

I think my accent is fairly neutral. There are traces of Black Country/Brummie in there,especially when I'm angry, but my mother was VERY determined to stamp those out when I was young. It worked.